Mayor calls two proposals ‘very disparate issues’

Mayor Bill de Blasio said he didn’t support linking the passage of stronger rent regulations to a new education tax credit, a compromise under discussion in Albany in the final days of the legislative session.

“We have to push Albany to de-link instead of link,” the mayor said in an interview Monday with The Wall Street Journal. “Albany has a habit of linking very disparate issues together, and I don’t think that’s the best way to make policy.”